Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

lexapro?

So my friend has lexapro, but she doesn't take it on a regular basis. Will it work if she randomly takes it when she thinks she needs one?
I'm trying to figure out if i need to tell her that it doesn't work like that.

I just spoke to my doctor yesterday about this very thing because I am on Lexapro. I do take mine regularly, but she was explaining that because I take such a low dose, that if I were dealing with a really stressful situation, that I could take 2 pills a day for a few days and then go back down to 1. But she followed up by saying that you can't just take it only here and there when needed &amp; that it doesn't work like that. It needs time to build up in your system to take the full effect which is 2-4 weeks.
Hope this helps~

Hi,
I've been taking it for about two months now and was feeling no benefit at all, which has added to my anxiety and depression. I was taking 20 mgs. but then my psychiatrist saw that it wasn't helping at that level .I'm a big fella so maybe he figures I need a higher dosage. So I'm on 30 mgs a day.I have to say that each day I try to take the 10 mgs as close as I can to 8 hrs. apart I'm so desperate for it to start working (I even bought a stopwatch/timer to keep track (maybe that's part of my neurosis and OCD?)

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